Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) traded shots at each other Tuesday over who would be to blame for a government shutdown, something that both leaders indicated is becoming more likely with each passing day.

“I’m sure you’re all asking the question, are we or are we not going to have a Schumer shutdown? It sounds like from what he is indicating, that very may well happen,” Thune told reporters after the weekly Republican policy lunch.

Thune said that Republican leaders are going to stick to their plan of passing a seven-week clean stop-gap funding measure through the House and then putting it on the Senate floor, daring Democrats to vote “no.”

“We’re going to give them every opportunity to vote for a clean CR, something that in

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